Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261845AbUJYOok (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:44:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261847AbUJYOoe (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:44:34 -0400 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:51197 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261838AbUJYOlS convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:41:18 -0400 Subject: Re: Temporary NFS problem when rpciod is SIGKILLed From: Trond Myklebust To: Denis Vlasenko Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200410251702.58622.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> References: <200410251702.58622.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:41:11 -0400 Message-Id: <1098715271.10720.37.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-MailScanner-Information: This message has been scanned for viruses/spam. Contact postmaster@uio.no if you have questions about this scanning X-UiO-MailScanner: No virus found X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0, required 12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 767 Lines: 23 m? den 25.10.2004 Klokka 17:02 (+0300) skreiv Denis Vlasenko: > I am using NFS root. At shutdown, when I kill > all processes with killall5 -9, NFS temporarily > misbehaves. I narrowed it down to rpciod feeling > bad when signalled with SIGKILL: That is a deliberate feature. It is useful when mountpoints hang etc. Note however that the patches that convert rpciod to use a workqueue (they can be found in the latest -mm kernels) remove this feature. Cheers, Trond -- Trond Myklebust - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/